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CONTAINERISATION
Site suitability
In some locations, it’s simply impossible to house a
new data centre. This could be due to footprint, budget or
even local planning regulations. Often in these situations,
a container can be a solution accepted by all and can be
implemented with a minimum of fuss or raised eyebrows
from the CFO.
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Off-site construction
There could be many reasons why you can’t build a
data centre on site, for example, if it’s a high-security area,
or the data centre is only needed in a disaster recovery
situation such as a flood, so you want to keep it off-site. A
containerised solution can be fully designed, fitted out and
tested at a separate location. It could even be running in
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a separate location, mirroring servers at the main location
and can then dropped in as a ‘clone’ when needed.
Mobile data centre
If you need your data centre to be mobile, either
because you know the facility will be moving to another
site in the future or you want to ship it to another country
once built, then containerisation is an excellent solution.
Firstly, because units are normally designed to shipping
containing external dimensions, use the same interlock
systems and meet or exceed the same rigidity and load
standards, shipping them is a lot easier than sending
individual components that must be re-assembled at the
other end. Secondly, it’s possible, using the right partner,
to get the container CSC (Container Safety Convention)
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Rittal solutions for the technology of the future.
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and in real time. Rittal prepares you and your IT infrastructure
for new challenges - flexibly, economically, and globally.